Roman roads
Roman roads are roads that the Romans build to make sure that messages and people could move easily round the Empire.[1] The roads were helpful for armies, officials, civilians, messengers, and traders.[2] All the roads put together were more than 40,000 kilometres (25,000 miles) long, and 8,500 kilometres (5,300 mi) of the roads are made of stone.[3][4]
Roman Roads Media
Römerstraßen rund um Rom
The Appian Way, one of the oldest and most important Roman roads
The Roman Empire in the time of Hadrian (r. 117–138), showing the network of main Roman roads
Roman roads animation in Latin with English subtitles
Old Roman road, leading from Jerusalem to Beit Gubrin, adjacent to regional highway 375 in Israel
Section of the Via delle Gallie (Valle d'Aosta) in Italy, built by excavating the steep rock slope at left
The cross-section of a street in Pompeii.1 Native earth; 2 Statumen; 3 Audits; 4 Nucleus; 5 Dorsum or agger viae; 6 Crepido, margo or semita; 7 Umbones or edge-stones
The remains of Emperor Trajan's route along the Danube in Roman Serbia
Roman auxiliary infantry crossing a river, probably the Danube, on a pontoon bridge during the emperor Trajan's Dacian Wars (101–106)
Tabula Peutingeriana (Southern Italy centered)
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References
- ↑ Forbes, Robert James (1993). Studies in ancient technology, Volume 2. Brill. p. 146. ISBN 978-90-04-00622-5.
- ↑ Kaszynski, William 2000. The American Highway: the history and culture of roads in the United States. Jefferson N.C.: McFarland. Page 9
- ↑ Gabriel, Richard A. The Great Armies of Antiquity. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2002. Page 9.
- ↑ Michael Grant, History of Rome (New York: Charles Scribner, 1978), 264.
- see also Roman roads in Britain
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